Garment-fastener.



R. J. MCBREEN.

GARMENT FASTENEB.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. z2, 191e.

1;281,61? v Patented 001;.15, 1918` 7M/I. w BY ATTORNEY v RAYMOND J. MCBREEN, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GARMENT-FASTENIER.

Application filed March 22, 1918.

To /z/ZZ ywhom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAYMOND J. Mo- BREEN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Fasteners,y of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment fasteners which may however be used for various other purposes. The object of the invention is to make a thin, smooth, neat and eiicient latwise slidably. connectible and disconnectible fastener comprising complementary coupling members each of which may be fastened to goods either by sewing or clamping them in place. Fasteners embodying this invention may be used in lieu of hooksv and eyes as well as in lieu of press or push type of fasteners in well-known use as glovefasteners and for other purposes.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the principle of this invention in the best mode now known to me of applying that principle,

Figure 1 is a top plan view, and

Fig. 2 an edge view, of a double flanged stud, the base flanges being provided with l marginal thread eyes. This member constitutes the entrant complementary fastener member or stud.

Fig. 3 is a diametric sectional view of the complementary receiving member or socket of the fastener at a line corresponding to line 3 3 of Fig. 6, and shows the member provided with a mouth for entrance of the shank and head of the ent-rant member, the

mouth terminating in a central shank-receiving opening; and with a spring for engaging said shank.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a partially cupped foldable blank from which the receiving member is made.

Fig. 5 is a plan of the shank-engaging spring removed.

Fig. 6 is a plan of an assemblage of the blank shown in Fig. 4 with the spring shown in Fig. 5, prior to folding the blank into the position shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 7 is an edge view of the assembled folded blank and spring, looking toward the shank and head receiving mouth.

Fig. S is a diametric sectional view of the coupled members, at a line corresponding to line 3 3 of Fig. 6, each member being shown sewn to goods.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15,1918.

serial No. 223,891. i

Referring' to Figs. l to 8 inclusive, the entrant member-or stud comprises a base flange 1, a fiat head flange 2, and intermediate shank 3, the flange being provided with thread-holes 4. The shank is tubular and provided with a transverse thread-bar 5 over which threads may be passed' to sew the member to goods if it is not desired to use the thread-eyes 4 which may be desirably dispensed with. By sewing the member in place over the bar 5, the thread is concealed and removed from frictional contact with the receiving member, and the entrant member can be better sewn in place.

The receiving member or socket is preferably made from a blank having' a portion 6 hereinafter called the stud-shank-receiving side, which is partially cupped by an upturned liange 7, the stud-sliank-receiving side 6 being preferably but not necessarily integral wit-h a cover-forming side 3. The two sides 6 and 8 of the blank (Fig. 4) are shown integrally connected by opposed bendablerportions 9, 9, these being formed by a cut-out 10 in the blank side 6, the cutout. having opposite lateral extensions 11. In the direction of the blank side 8, the cutout 10 and its two extensions 11 give this end portion of the opening formed by the cnt-out; a T appearance, and this end of the cut! out 10 with its extensions 11, 11, forms a head and shank receiving mouth of the receiving member when the blank is bent up and over across the bendable portions 9 to form a cover for the cupped oi flanged studshankLreceiving side 6. The opposite end portion 0f the cut-out 10 is shown with a curved wall for abutment of the shank 3 of the ent-rant member, and this end ofthe cnt-out 10 is elongated in the diametric direction to form a needle-receiving space 12 to which the thread-bar 13 ofthe cover-forming side 8 is opposed when the cover side is in place. This receiving member may be strongly sewn in placeby carryingthe thread over the thread-bar 13, through the thread and needle receiving openings 14 between which the thread-bar 13 is located. This thread-bar 13 and the two openings 14 are opposed to the cut-out l0 and its elongation forming the needlereceiving space 12. But I also show the cover side formed with threadeyes 4 as in the case of the stud base, except that in the case of the thread-eyes 4 in the cover-forming side 8. they are not only marginally located as in the base iiange of the stud, 'but are also elongated and alternate with solid portions a of' the side 8 between the ends of the elongated thread-eyes so as to permit a thread-carrying needle to pass from one eye to the other and carry the fastening thread over the portions a which form thread-bars.

A properly bent wire spring having op` posite end portions 15 to abut against the flange 7 (Fig. 6) is placed in the socketchamber formed by the opposed side walls which are spaced apart and by the flange 7 forming the edge wall of the sockets, the side wall 8 being preferably dimensie-ned to be folded within the flange 7, but not so hard upon the spring as to impede the free lateral movements of its opposed bends at 16 between which the head of the entrant member is edgewise passed from the mouth formed in an edge of the receiving member-by the cut-out 10 and its extensions 11. @ne of the bends 16 is adjacent one end of the studhead-receiving mouth-forming extensions 11, and the other bend 16 is adjacent the other end of the mouth, which is longer than the cut-out or slot 10 is wide inwardly of the mouth formed as described in the edge wall, so that the under margin of' the stud head slides on the margins of theside 6 with the periphery of the stud head between the opposed members of the spring in coupling or disconnecting the stud and socket. The bowed spring spans the slot 10 within the socket chamber and portions of each spring bend 16 overhang the slot 10 adjacent the mouth-forming extensions 11. Inwardly of the bends 16, opposite portions of the spring are concave at 17 adjacent the inner end portion of the cut-out 10, and when the entrant member is assembled with the receiving member, the head 2 of the former member, having passed between the bends 16, lies between these opposed concave sides of the spring, the crown or central closed end bend 18 of the spring abutting against the flange 7 opposite the mouth formed by the cut-out portions 10 and 11. The construction may be of any size, and may be made very thin because the structure is such that the stud head does not overlap the spring but lies between the spring members that span the cut-out 10. The entrant member is shown Vsewn to goods m, the receiving member to.

goods y.

The stud and socket are coupled and dis# Copies of this patent may 'be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

connected by an edgewise sliding movement. rThe spring may be called a bowed spring.

Various changes in form can be made without departure from this invention.

l. A garment-fastener socket having a stud-shanlr-receiving side, an opposed coverforming side spaced apart from the studshanlcreceiving side, and an edge wall, the three walls inclosing a spring and stud-headreceiving chamber; and the edge-wall haiv4 ing a stud-head-receiving mouth, and the stud-shank-receiving side having a studshank-receiving slot which communicates with the mouth, the latter being longer than the slot is wide.

2.`1n the structure of claim 1, a bowed spring in said chamber, the spring having members which span said slot and also having separable bends one adjacent one end and the other adjacent the other end of said mouth in the edge wall.

8. 1n the structure of claim 1, the coverforming side having a thread-bar between needle-receiving spaces, the bar and needlereceiving spaces being opposed to the stud-V shank-receiving slot in the stud--shank-receiving side. j Y

4. In the structure of' claim 1, the coverforming side having marginal thread-eyes alternating with thread-bars.

5. A garmentfastener socket formingV blank comprising a pair of' opposable sides each being integral with intermediatebendable portions spaced edgewise apart, the space between them being intersected between its ends by a slot at an angle to such space; and one of the sides having an in` tegra-l upturned marginal flange, eachY end of which is adjacent one of said bendable portions.

6. As a new article of manufacture, an integral chambered garment-fastener socket comprising a pair of opposed lobes, one of' the lobes having an upturned; marginal flange extending only part way around the lobe; an upt-urned integral 4portion of the structure connecting the two lobes and being bent up to form a flange supplementary to said other flange; and the other of the pair of lobes being bent into flatwise bpposition to the flanged lobes. v

l 1n testimony whereof 1 have hereunto 'set my hand this 14th day of March, 1918.

RAYMOND J. MCBREEN.

Washington, D. G. 

